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Author | : George Pattison |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2013-01-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191611840 |
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This book looks at Kierkegaard with a fresh perspective shaped by the history of ideas, framed by the terms romanticism and modernism. 'Modernism' here refers to the kind of intellectual and literary modernism associated with Georg Brandes, and such later nineteenth and early twentieth century figures as J. P. Jacobsen, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Ibsen (all often associated with Kierkegaard in early secondary literature), and the young Georg Lukacs. This movement, currently attracting increasing scholarly attention, fed into such varied currents of twentieth century thought as Bolshevism (as in Lukacs himself), fascism, and the early existentialism of, e.g., Shestov and the radical culture journal The Brenner (in which Kierkegaard featured regularly, and whose readers included Martin Heidegger). Each of these movements has, arguably, its own 'Romantic' aspect and Kierkegaard thus emerges as a figure who holds together or in whom are reflected both the aspirations and contradictions of early romanticism and its later nineteenth and twentieth century inheritors. Kierkegaard's specific 'staging' of his authorship in the contemporary life of Copenhagen, then undergoing a rapid transformation from being the backward capital of an absolutist monarchy to a modern, cosmopolitan city, provides a further focus for the volume. In this situation the early Romantic experience of nature as providing a source of healing and an experience of unambiguous life is transposed into a more complex and, ultimately, catastrophic register. In articulating these tensions, Kierkegaard's authorship provided a mirror to his age but also anticipated and influenced later generations who wrestled with their own versions of this situation.
Author | : George Pattison |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2013-11-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1625645023 |
Download Kierkegaard and the Crisis of Faith Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The standing of the Danish philosopher and religious thinker S¿ren Kierkegaard has gone up in recent years. Yet because he regarded communication as being as much about self-concealment as about self-revelation, he can still seem a forbidding and difficult figure. The deliberate ambiguity of Kierkegaard, in which he set out to repel as much as to attract his readers, is here explored by George Pattison, who gives full attention to the scandalous element of the philosopher's work, and does not shy away from his ambivalent attitudes towards sexuality, the body, marriage, and the family. This book is unlike other nontechnical introductions to Kierkegaard in that it does not seek to promote one part of Kierkegaard's writings over others, but offers, rather, a perspective on his life and output as a whole. That Kierkegaard grappled in his own age with many of the problems which beset our own, and frequently offered fascinating responses to those problems, is a major incentive to examine his thought today. By placing Kierkegaard in the context of a "crisis of faith"and making valuable connections between events in the philosopher's life and the development of his thinking, the author of this timely, readable, and attractively written study has produced a book which should be of interest to a wide nonspecialist readership.
Author | : George Pattison |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2012-06-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1610978323 |
Download Kierkegaard's Pastoral Dialogues Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Takes a selection of Kierkegaard's most insightful spiritual wiritings and transforms them into a series of dialoges between two friends, a believer and a non-believer.
Author | : George Pattison |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2013-06-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1620328186 |
Download The Heart Could Never Speak Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book offers an interpretation of a posthumously published poem by Edwin Muir (1887-1959), beginning The heart could never speak / But that the Word was spoken. The poem is read as summing up Muir's lifelong struggle with fundamental questions about the meaning of existence, questions often developed in dialogue with such figures as Nietzsche, Hslderlin, and Kafka. These references allow us to bring Muir into conversation with modern existentialist philosophy and theology, and Muir's poetic thought is seen as both illuminating and as illuminated by such existentialist thinkers as Heidegger, Bultmann, Kierkegaard, and Berdyaev. Themes such as death, time, love, the nature of language, and the alienation brought about by technological mass society, and the threat of nuclear catastrophe are central to the poem's subject-matter and are dealt with by Muir in such a way as to make possible a Christian version of existentialist thought. The perennial nature of such questions in modern society makes the poem as relevant to contemporary issues in religious thought today as when it was written. For all its simplicity, it is the argument of the book that it makes an abiding contribution to human self-understanding.
Author | : George Pattison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317122771 |
Download Heidegger on Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger's paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time. Although Heidegger's own treatment deliberately refrains from engaging theological perspectives, George Pattison suggests that these not only serve to bring out problematic elements in his own approach but also point to the larger human or anthropological issues in play. Pattison reveals where and how Heidegger and theology part ways but also how Heidegger can helpfully challenge theology to rethink one of its own fundamental questions: human beings' relation to their death and the meaning of death in their religious lives.
Author | : George Pattison |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-10-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0192542990 |
Download A Phenomenology of the Devout Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Phenomenology of the Devout Life is the first part of a three-part work, A Philosophy of Christian Life. Rather than approaching Christianity through its doctrinal statements, as philosophers of religion have often done, the book starts by offering a phenomenological description of the devout life as that is set out in the teaching of Francois de Sales and related authors. This is because for most Christians practice and life-commitments are more fundamental than formal doctrinal beliefs. Although George Pattison will address the metaphysical truth-claims of Christianity in Part three, the guiding argument is that it is the Christian way of life that best reveals what these beliefs really are. As the work is a philosophical study, it does not presuppose the truth of Christianity but assumes only that there is a humanly accessible meaning to the intention to live a devout life, pleasing to God. This can be said to find expression in a certain view of selfhood that emphasizes the dimensions of feeling and will rather than intellect and that culminates in the experience of the annihilation of self. This is a model of selfhood deeply opposed to contemporary models that privilege autonomous agency and the devout life is therefore presented as offering a corrective to extreme versions of the contemporary view.
Author | : S¿ren Kierkegaard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-02-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781324094487 |
Download The Sickness Unto Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first new translation of Kierkegaard's masterwork in a generation brings to life this impassioned investigation of the self.
Author | : Søren Kierkegaard |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2009-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1897406061 |
Download The Portable Kierkegaard Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Adrian Coates |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-09-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725272385 |
Download The Aesthetics of Discipleship Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discipleship is embodied. Formation in the Christian life is not an otherworldly exercise but one that plays out in this world, interwoven with everyday sensory experience in ordinary life. The Aesthetics of Discipleship explores this dynamic through Kierkegaard's framing of "aesthetic existence"--the sensory experience of being "in the moment"--further developed by Bonhoeffer, as operating within a realm of freedom, encompassing not only art but play, friendship, and cultural formation. In addition to Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer, the work of Iain McGilchrist, Graham Ward, and Nicholas Wolterstorff is employed to offer a fresh perspective on discipleship, "from below": Everyday sensory experiences are integral not only to being human but to the practice of discipleship, such that discipleship integrates aesthetic, ethical, and religious existence. Aesthetic existence unhinged from a life of faith or fueled by distorted Christendom creates and sustains aestheticized pseudorealities centered on the self. Mature aesthetic existence, however, anchored in love for God, plays a fundamental role in the Christian life, both as the incarnational celebration of being fully human, and also through the preconscious formation of imaginaries by which we live.
Author | : Katalin Nun |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135187487X |
Download Volume 16, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension of his thought has served to make his writings far more popular than those of other philosophers and theologians, but at the same time it has made their interpretation more complex. Kierkegaard readers are generally aware of his interest in figures such as Faust or the Wandering Jew, but they rarely have a full appreciation of the vast extent of his use of characters from different literary periods and traditions. The present volume is dedicated to the treatment of the variety of literary figures and motifs used by Kierkegaard. The volume is arranged alphabetically by name, with Tome I covering figures and motifs from Agamemnon to Guadalquivir.